This collection pools common variables from each of the
biennial National Election Studies conducted since 1948. The election
studies are designed to present data on Americans' social backgrounds,
enduring political predispositions, social and political values,
perceptions and evaluations of groups and candidates, opinions on
questions of public policy, and participation in political life. The
data provided in this cumulative file include a series of demographic
variables and measures of so... (more info)

This collection pools common variables from each of the
biennial National Election Studies conducted since 1948. The election
studies are designed to present data on Americans' social backgrounds,
enduring political predispositions, social and political values,
perceptions and evaluations of groups and candidates, opinions on
questions of public policy, and participation in political life. The
data provided in this cumulative file include a series of demographic
variables and measures of social structure, partisanship, candidate
evaluation, retrospective and incumbent presidential evaluation,
public opinion, ideological support for the political system, mass
media usage, and equalitarianism and post-materialism. Additional
items provide measures of political activity, participation, and
involvement, and voting behavior and registration (including results
of vote validation efforts). In 2001, corrections were made to
variables VCF0902, VCF0904, and VCF0905.

Study Description

Citation

American National Election Studies. American National Election Studies (ANES) Cumulative Data File, 1948-2008. ICPSR08475-v14. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-12-05. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08475.v14

Universe:
Cases from the AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDIES (ANES)
SERIES.

Data Types:
survey data

Data Collection Notes:

This file contains only a subset of the variables
from the entire American National Election Studies (ANES) Series. Variables
selected for inclusion were those most central to the research program
of the election studies and which appeared in at least three of the
surveys. Variables have been recoded to be consistent across the time
span.

Please refer to the user guide for information pertaining to the labeling scheme for variable VCF0129.

Methodology

Sample:
See sampling information from the individual studies in
the AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDIES (ANES) SERIES.

Data Source:

Data files from the American National Election Studies (ANES) Series.

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Performed consistency checks.

Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Version(s)

Original ICPSR Release:1986-04-28

Version History:

2011-12-05 Data for 2008 have been added, and the data are available in ASCII with SAS, SPSS, and Stata data definition statements, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata data file formats. The codebook is now available as a PDF file.

2007-09-25 Data for 2004 have been added. The
number of variables has increased from 750 to 950. The codebook is now
available as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file.

2004-12-08 Data for 2002 have been added, and the
data are available in ASCII with SAS, SPSS, and Stata data definition
statements, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata data file
formats. The codebook is now available as a PDF file.

2002-05-31 Data for 2000 have been added, and the
data are available in ASCII, SAS transport, and SPSS portable file
formats. The number of variables has increased from 635 to 752. The
codebook is now available as a PDF file.